Yaquina Head Lighthouse and Oregon Coast Aquarium at Newport, Oregon

These are the jugs that held the oil for the lamp in the original light.

These barrels are replicas of the original “oil butts’ that stored “prime burning oil” (refined lard oil, from the fat of hogs) at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. Each galvanized tin butt holds 100 gallons. There were eight butts of this size in the oil room at the Lighthouse.

Butt is a nautical term for barrel. It is also a term for the type of joint used to join sheets of metal together to make a metal barrel.

the original prisms for this lighthouse made in France.

Looking down.

Other views.

See the two seals

Then off to the Oregon Coast Aquarium

First under the Yaquina Bay Bridge, another McCullough bridge.

In the tourist book:

This world-class facility, rated in the top ten in the U.S., has indoor and outdoor exhibits.

Entrance exhibit

Seabird Bird Aviary

Passages of the Deep ( Shark Tunnel)

Harbor Seals and Sea Lions.

Teri’s favorite the Sea Otters.

The trainer first job is to get the sea otter to touch the nose to the trainers had. Then the next command was to lay down. The sea otter is about as well trained as Blue.

We watched the sea otters get their afternoon food. They eat about 25% of their body weight every day!!!!!!!

The Octopus Display

Then we went to the indoor displays of Coastal Waters, then Rocky Shores and then Sandy Shores.